Cotton chopper and cultivator



(No Model.)

' F. A. PETTITT.

COTTON CHOPPER AND GULTIVATOR. No. 277,777. Patented May 15,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC FRANCIS A. PETTITT, OF VALLEY MILLS, TEXAS.

COTTON CHOPPER AND CULTEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 27'7,777, dated May 15, 1888. Application filed January 27,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS A. PETTITT, of Valley Mills, in the county of Bosque and State of, Texas, have invented a new and Improved Uotton Chopper and I Cultivator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to improve cottonchoppers, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the machine on the line as a; of Fig.

1, and Fig. 3 is a detail in transverse section on line 3 y of Fig. 1.

I make a rectangular frame of side pieces, a, resting at the rear ends on the axle I), and connected by cross-pieces c, of which the front one rests on a supporting-wheel, d, and has the tongue 0 connected to it by the branches/'1 The baring-off plows g, for scraping the weeds and other trash away from the sides of the plants, are attached to the front beam 0 at equal distances from the center of the machine, the said plows being fastened by clamping-clips h, confining the stocks to the beam, so that they may be shifted up and down suitably for regulating the plows as to the depth they are required to work in the ground. The

chopping-hoe j is located a little distance behind the baring 01f plows and a little to one side of the center of the machine, its handle it being pivoted at l to a cross-beam, m, placed upon the side beams, a, and above the pivot the handle has a strong spiral spring, a, conmeeting it to an upright, 0, for throwing the hoe forward to chop out the plants. The hoe is pushed baclrby a roller, 1), which is notched in the sides at q, to allow the hoe to be thrust forward by the spring twice in each revolution of the roller. The roller is geared with a driving-Wheel, s, on the axle by a pinion, t, on it, and turns itrthe direction indicated by the arrow, so that when the angles a of the notched part of the roller pass away from the handle the latter is left free to be thrust forward and swing the hoe across the row to chop out a Space.

The hilliug and cultivatingplows w are connected to the beams x, located at the sides of the. roller 10, respectively, and hitched to the front beam 0, so as to be drawn along the sides of the rows of plants suitably for hilling up the earth around them. At the rear ends the beams are connected to elbow-levers 7, pivoted on the rear beam 0 suitably for enabling the driver to swing them up out of the ground when required, said levers being located in suitable proximity to the seat 2, on which the driver sits.

It will be seen that the machineis contrived for such simplicity of construction that it can for the most part be made by hands of ordinary skill, such as are generally available whenever such machines are requireiLtor use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv The combination, with the chopper-handle k, of the notched roller 1), the mortised cross beam m, having the pivot 1 across its mortise or hole, and the spring a, attached to an upright, 0, and the handle it, whereby the chopper may be operated as described.

FRANCIS ALEXANDER PETTITT.

Witnesses:

W. P. HATCHITT, R. A. PETERS. 

